The New Neighbor | The Seasick Goats | The First Test of the Powdered Fart | The New Student | Boulet's Idea | Mr. Madsen and the Dölgen Elementary School Marching Band | That Night in the Oslo Sewers | Boulet's Simple Math Problem | The Space-Flying Powdered Fart | Boulet's Trick and Juliet's Margarine Story | The Big Sale on the Powdered Fart | Truls and Trum Fly Away | The Most Perfect Day Ever? | Three Suspicious People | The Dungeon of Death | The Great Escape | The Creature in the Sewers | The Great Escape | The Patent Office | The Confession | Independence Day | The Final Chapter

As much as the fireworks explode on Norway's Independence Day,
A great idea product that's bursting with excitement
Dr. Proctor's Super-Strong Fart Powder
An extraordinary adventure with the magical fart powder!

Bulle is unable to adapt to school and transfers schools before finally moving to Oslo's Kanon Street.
Canon Street is home to the eccentric Dr. Proctor, Lise, and the twin brothers Truls and Trim.
Lise lived next door to Bulle, and since Lise was also a loner, the two quickly became close friends.
Dr. Proctor, who lives next door to these two, takes an interest in the new resident, Bulle, and invites him to his laboratory.
Bulle and Lise decide to help Dr. Proctor with his unique experiments.
And he becomes Proctor's assistant and helps him perfect a special fart powder.


But there were those who coveted the fart powder, the twin brothers Truls and Trum.
The two guys are troublemakers who use their large size as a weapon to bully weak and powerless children, especially Bulle and Lise.
Their interest is in stealing fart powder, and they talk to their father, Mr. Trane, who is an expert in this field.
Mr. Trane is a man who became a millionaire by stealing other people's invention patents.
He then becomes interested in fart powder that has enough power to fly through space, in order to become even richer.
The gang plots to have the eccentric doctor invent an atomic bomb and sends Proctor and Boule to the dungeons of death.


Late at night, when everyone is asleep, Mr. Trane and his twins, their faces covered by masks, break into the doctor's laboratory and steal the "Doctor's Green Powder" from the shelf.
There's no way that Dr. Proctor's neighbor, Lise, would miss this scene.
Lise informs this news to Bulle and Dr. Proctor.
Proctor gives Bulle the fluorescent powder and fart powder that were left in his pocket, and Bulle attempts to escape from the dungeon.
He narrowly escapes the dungeon through a toilet, but falls into a sewer pipe and encounters a massive anaconda.
Will Bulle survive his duel with the anaconda? And will Dr. Proctor clear his name and retrieve the fart powder?

Special stories of ordinary people

In 『The Eccentric Dr. Proctor 1: The Curious Fart Powder』, there are some somewhat rough adults, such as the homeroom teacher Mr. Strobe who only nags and warns the children, the conductor Mr. Madsen who does not give the children a chance based only on their appearance, the mother Boule who does not care at all even if her son goes to prison, Mr. Trane who commits all kinds of crimes, and the commander Lise's father who always tells them to live a good life.
In the eyes of these people, the red-haired elementary school student, Bulle, is a small child who only talks nonsense, and the smart Lise is a model student but a quiet child with no presence.


But unlike them, there appears an adult who looks into Bulle and Lise's eyes, comforts their wounded hearts, and treats them as a friend and sometimes a colleague.
This is the eccentric Dr. Proctor.
He is a man with a peculiar appearance, with a bushy white beard, unkempt hair, and glasses that look like water glasses, and he creates inventions that others would never make.
For example, there are fluorescent powders that make your body glow when you eat them and anti-flatulence powders that can control flatulence.
As Bulle and Lise help Proctor with his inventions, they become the most meaningful beings in the world and gain self-esteem only when they are with him.
Dr. Proctor is also grateful to Bulle and Lise for recognizing his invention, which no one in the world understood.


Proctor, Bulle, and Lise are each 'outsider' characters that you can easily meet around you.
But the reason these characters seem so appealing is probably because when the three of them work together, they complement each other's shortcomings and create synergy to overcome difficulties.
So, I want to cheer on these three people who seem a bit sloppy, and I want to join them in their world.
No matter how painful and difficult it is, if there is just one person who believes in me, I can find the strength to endure.
This work captures the informal friendship between three people who rely on each other.
It is also impressive that the story naturally teaches us about right and wrong and the value of life through the light and shade of ordinary people, without introducing a righteous character.


Imagination that makes the world fun

When we think of farts, not only children but also adults burst out laughing.
What if we added a touch of imagination to make the world more interesting? "The Amazing Fart Powder" depicts farts as visible "powder" and even allows you to eat them.
And the author, with his amazing imagination, unfolds the various incidents that occurred because of the fart powder into an interesting, suspenseful story that will keep your palms sweating.
The story is made more expansive and richer by using the marching band and gunfire, traditional events held to commemorate Norway's Independence Day, as the main backdrop of the fairy tale.
It is structured so that you can indirectly experience and explore the fantasy of Northern Europe and Norwegian culture, providing both fun and information.
Also, you will be amazed when you realize that the description of the anaconda and the rat at the beginning of the story was a clue to an incredible incident.
Even amidst the unpredictable events unfolding, you can feel joy, sadness, laughter, and whimsy in the characters' struggles.
This is a fairy tale that demonstrates Jo Nesbø's unique 'power of storytelling.'

A meeting of two Norwegian masters!

The 'Dr. Proctor' series is a full-length fantasy fairy tale by Jo Nesbø, winner of the 'Glass Key Award', which is awarded to the best crime and mystery novel in Northern Europe.
The author spent her childhood reading fairy tales thanks to her librarian mother and a bookish father.
He is currently active as a musician, economist, and journalist, and has a deep interest in children's literature. He also engages in charity work by establishing a reading and writing foundation for children in third world countries.
The author has received praise from numerous media outlets around the world for this series, earning him the nickname "Norway's Roald Dahl."

Illustrator Per Dubbig is a visual artist, illustrator, and cartoonist who has illustrated over 80 books.
This series uniquely expresses the characters' emotions with pencil lines and minimal colors, giving it a different charm from existing children's works.
So it is sure to capture the hearts of both children and adults.


The 'Eccentric Dr. Proctor' series, a collaboration between two masters, gained explosive popularity as soon as the first volume was published, becoming a bestseller in the Norwegian children's fairy tale category and receiving much love from young readers.